The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-10
WIVES OF LITTERATBURS.
Something About Few of the Famous
Females

Y
moderate talent is unco' hard to live with.
The wife of Charles Dudley Warner is an
attractive woman, handsome, interested in
the best thought of the time. The couple
are childless. but thoroughly happy in their
home. Anna Katherine Green, the writer
of the "Leavenworth Case and others
among the best known detective stories of
! the time, is the mother of a family OF little
! children, handsome sturdy youngsters de-
| voted to their pretty mamma. Mrs. Rohlts,
| as she signs herself when she doesn't use her
| pen name, is the best Of housekeepers in her
| home in South Brooklyn and her husband
guards her leisure with jealous care. Bron-
son Howard and his wife are always seen
together and are devoted pair. Mrs. Kate
| | psOn Clarke is as coZily domestic in her
tastes as if she had never touched a pen.
Mrs. Laura Holloway has made herself
home by her literary work and keeps 1t
CHEEKY place for her grown son, who looks
too big to call her mother Mrs. Rebecca
Harding Davis, whose short stories are apt
to have melancholy turn, is vlvacious
body, thorough optimist to all appearance
with a son who has reached mans estate.
She and her husband, Mr.. l.. Clark Davis,
of the Philadelphia Enquirer, are home
loving couple and their house is full of sun
shine. Clara LAMA, or to give her her full
title, the Marquise LAMA de Mercato Blanco,
has little people pretty enough to call so
beautiful woman mother, and her home
| in Seventy-third street is furnished with a
rare feeling for color and harmony II is a
| very dainty, abiding place and has home
| look withal. Lvermore is a grandmother
| of the first order, and her grandchildren
swing on the gate of her big old house in
Melrose, unreproved. Julian Hawthorne is
| the best of husbands, and there are seven
| children in his home. Gable has half
| dozen young folks and serene home life.
Marion Harand is as notable a housewife
in fact as on paper, and paints and EN-
| broiders with considerable skill. Mrs.
Burnett sent her husband abroad with her
earnings to finish his studies as an occlist,
and the pair are one in their devotion to old
armoT and various antique bric-a -brac, and
to their two fine-looklng sons. Frank
| Stockton's wife is a clever woman, and
Stevenson's wife has something of literary
reputation of her own. Howells makes a
fresh study of his wife for every
one of his heroines and it IS
putting the severest test to their domestic
happiness to say that she doesn't resent it.
Louise Chandler Moulton has a very charm
ing daughter and she and her husband Mr..
William G. MoultOn, of the Boston True
Flag, are an entirely united couple Mrs.
Lucy Lille has adopted a couple of children
| because the mother instinct was so strong
| in her Literary marriages are not such bad
things after all.
Drunkenness is a curious study in psychol-
| ogy. A drunken man may be perfectly
aware of his condition, like the big brawny
fellow on a street car who remarked to me
the other morning that he had 'too much
whisky in him to 90 to work, " but he never
| seems to realize that he is like other drunk
| en- men, or that his conversation is not of
the most enthralling interest to everyone.
And 50 my interlocutor ratified on at a
great rate and was in a very conf
Dental mood. He made good wages when
he worked-S32 % q day, but he was often
'off on a toot." Sometimes he made two
days in a week and sometimes four. The
Lord only knew how many he would make
this week. lit was Monday He was going
home and seemed much concerned at the
greeting he was likely to get from his wife.
| when She sees, me coming" said he,
shell say: Why, Ned are you back againF'
| He initiated, as well as he could, between
his hiccoughs, the reproach in her tones,
and added, in a confidential manner, 1.-THE
| women are always looking out for the
| money you know" He had little speech
all prepared, which, he thought, must
silence her complainings. "Iil tell her.
he said that there'll be work left to do
| when I'm in Greenwood He got off the
car in a tenement quarter, resenting greatly
the conductors offer to stop the car so that
| he wouldn't break his neck, and started for
| his home with an uncertain step. He was
| evidently not q bad fellow. good tenDered
| EASY to a fault. generous. a loving husband.
no doubt. But what domestic problems
must have confronted the little wife at home
| when she saw the husband, who had earned.
perhaps. SIS in two weeks and spent large
| portion of that on drink. commence another
| week by coming up the stairs too drunk to
work The people who write and read
elaborate articles on ''How One Can Live if
| Economical. on s.. 600 a Year. 'mirht study
such a case as this with profit. This par
ticular husband was, apparently, well fed
and not badly clothed. How was that done!
Let the selvers of deep domestic problems
| answer.
| The Fifteenth Annual Congress of the As
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Women
which comes off in New York next week
| will be very largely attended The session
will last for three DAYS Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe has served for some wears as President
| of the body. and the list of officers and
| directors includes Professor Maria Mitchell.
Mrs Mary A. Livermore. Mrs Edna ID
| Chenv. Elizabeth b. Chase, Miss Francis c.
| Willard. the Rev. Antoinette Brown Black
we'll: Miss Ada C. Sweet. Mrs. Imogene c.
Fales. Miss Mary f, Eastman Mrs.
Frances E. w. Harper. Mrs. Emma
| G. Bascom. of Wisconsin University. DIR.
| Annie ID. French Elizabeth Boynton Hair
bert and a long list of others. The health
| education and ind lStraI propress of women